THIS year's Teletot winners walked away with a load of luxury prizes as Inverclyde's family favourite contest drew to a close.

Kayleb Pastore, 20 months, Mercedes McQuillan Singh, 21 months, and Ollie Baillie, 12 months, joined together at a celebration in honour of their success.

Our generous sponsors also lined up to greet the winning trio and congratulate their parents.

In the coming months they will look forward to a family photo session, a luxury hair care treatment for mum, a family leisure pass, a gift voucher for a top baby boutique, a celebration cake and the must-have toddler accessory, a cuddly toy.

As always, thousands of votes were cast for our scores of beautiful babies who entered this year's contest.

Tele editor Brian Hossack said: "Teletots has been such a popular competition within our pages for many years and I am pleased it remains so well-loved by our valued readers.

"I wish to say thanks to all of those who took part and voted this year.

"They made sure that the competition was such a huge success.

"I would also like to pass on my congratulations to all our winners and say thank-you to all our sponsors for their fantastic prizes."

Mum Michelle was delighted with the bagful of top prizes for her tot Mercedes, who polled over 1,000 votes.

She said: "It has been great and we are delighted with the prizes. I am glad we took part."

Mercedes was joined by Ollie and Kayleb, and once again they all performed for the camera as they put their smiling faces on.

They started on the long road to victory last year when they joined the large queues in the Oak Mall to have their photographs taken by the Tele.

All the entrants featured in the paper before the contest went to the public vote.

Once the polls had closed a top 10 was revealed, and our judges then had the hard task of picking three winners.

They made Christmas wishes come true by unveiling our top trio.

The winners received a a family photo session with Simpson Photographers, a luxury hair care voucher from Hair International, a family leisure pass from Inverclyde Leisure, gift vouchers from Cradle Care, a celebration cake from Aulds and a cuddly toy from Jumbo Cards and Gifts.

Thanks once again to our valued sponsors for offering such fantastic prizes.